The skills gap in U.S. manufacturing has hit a vast array of industries that are having trouble filling their workforce needs with properly trained workers who can step right in and help companies. Yet another suffering area has been the laser and photonics industry.
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Contractors have until Jan. 17 to comment on an interim rule published by the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) that addresses supply chain security in bids, orders, and services for national security systems.
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In The U.S. Technology Skills Gap: What Every Technology Executive Must Know to Save America's Future, author Gary J. Beach looks at a preceding gap that caused it and how to solve the enormous challenge.
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While the global marketplace for high-end analytical instruments has been on a modest upward growth curve, one subcategory of products -- mass spectrometers – has been growing much faster than others. A recent analysis of the market by Frost & Sullivan found that the global mass spectrometry market earned revenues of $1.7 billion in 2012, and it estimates that this figure will reach $2.5 billion in 2017.
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